Where does “千歲” come from?

千歲 (Chinese) comes from Japanese 千歳, from Japanese 千, from Middle Chinese 千, from Old Chinese 千.

千歲 (Chinese): thousand years; millennium; honorific title given...

Definitions

  1. thousand years; millennium; honorific title given...

Ancestry of “千歲”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese千歳a millennium; a thousand years
2Japanese千a thousand, 1000
3Middle Chinese千—
4Old Chinese千—
Every word from Old Chinese 千 →Every word from Middle Chinese 千 →Every word from Japanese 千 →